Knee Exercises - Start With This Light Exercise After ACL Knee Injuries

If you have recently suffered an injury to your ACLthe ground by straightening your leg.  You should feel
knee or have gone through surgery such as meniscusthe back of your knee putting pressure on the pillow
surgery, it is important to start with "light" kneebelow it (do not lock your knee).
exercises before building to higher resistance training.Hold this position for about 10 seconds and slowly let
We will focus on minor leg lifts for this knee treatmentyour leg fold back over the pillow.
exercise in order to help strengthen the largest muscleDo this exercise until you feel a good burn in your
supporting the knee joint, which is the quadriceps.quadricep, which is that muscle on the front of your leg
Before doing these knee exercises, remember tojust above your knee joint.
warm up first by doing about 5 minutes of light walking.Repeat this same exercise with your left leg.
First, you will need to find a place to sit comfortablyDo these knee exercises at least twice a day until you
that has back support, such as a on the floor againstcan comfortably do it for 3 minutes at a time for each
your wall.leg, then you know that it is time to move on to the
Then, with your legs straight out in front of you, put anext resistance level.  All you have to do differently at
pillow under your right knee.this point is sit in a chair and raise one leg at a time.
All you have to do is slowly raise your right foot off